Favorite Movies and TV

A list of all of my favorite movies and TV shows.

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Favorite movies

• Spotlight
• Gattaca
• Pi
• Primer
• The pianist
• Seven
• Children of men
• American History X
• Fight club
• Moon
• Zodiac
• Donnie Darko
• Inside man
• The Dark Knight series (2 & 3)
• American Beauty
• A beautiful mind
• Temple Grandin
• Joker
• Good will hunting
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Shutter island
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Get out
• Requiem for a Dream
• Mad Max
• 1917
• Baby Driver
• The Godfather
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Green Mile
• Dead Poets Society
• Catch me if you can
• 12 years a slave
• Master and Commander
• Just Mercy
• Avatar
• Inception
• Tenet
• Lincoln
• Interstellar
• Ladybird
• Arrival
• Mother!
• Revolutionary road*
• Synecdoche, New York
• The end of the tour
• The Big Sick
• The Departed
• Gone girl
• Blue Jasmine
• Contagion
• V for vendetta* (probably my favorite movie)
• The Report
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• Inglorious Basterds
• The Prestige
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• Mad max
• Waking Life
• Booksmart
• The Matrix
• The Revenant
• 12 monkeys

Favorite TV shows

• High Maintenance (sequence is Derelict, Fagin, Globo, etc)
• Euphoria
• Broad City
• Chernobyl
• Succession (incredible, walks the line between comedy and drama perfectly, very witty)
• Dear White People (1st season)
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Arrested Development
• Mr. Robot (Season 1, very feminist, people of color; stereotypes a grandma but she's super technical)

Honorable mentions

• Midsommar (good light horror, Get out but white people)
• Drinking Buddies
• The World Before Your Feet
• Queen's Gambit
• West Wing (especially season 6, Matt Santos/Arny Vinnick)
• Dark (seasons 1 and 2)
• Generation Kill (artistic, realistic; a unique mix of everything)
• The Martian
• BlacKkKlansman
• The Big Short
• Green Book
• Marriage Story
• Betty

Documentaries

• CitizenFour
• The House I Live In
• The Patriot Act (episode on billionaires)
• Literally every Ken Burns documentary

Stuff I liked in middle school

• Whatever Works
• The island
• Religuolous
• The wave
• 9
• The invasion
• Crash
• Limitless
• Goodfellas
• It's kind of a funny story
• Pulp fiction
• 2001: a space oddysey
• Funny people
• The Town

Starting company motivators

• Halt and Catch Fire
• Pirates of Silicon Valley
• The Social Network
• The internet’s own boy.
• The Internet's Own Boy (Aaron Swartz)
• Triumph of the Nerds / Nerds 2.0
• Startup.com
• Revolution OS

Founders falling from grace

• The inventor, theranos
• Fyre festival
• Wework documentary
• Startup.com